alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
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I am working on an online Talmud to explore the old text in new ways! Its been a pet project of mine for over 4/5 years, and to my knowledge its the only attempt to blend the classic format of the text (Tzurat Hadaf) and AI enhanced commentaries sourced from the classical texts
Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.
I've been throwing together some web-playable retro arcade games:
Rally-X: https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/
Tempest: https://linsomniac.github.io/teapot/
Dig-Dug: https://linsomniac.github.io/digger/
And not an arcade game, but a multi-player throwback to a multiplayer shooter game my team used to play called nSnipes: https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes
iSnipes does require downloading and running a server, the others you just play on the web.
A cloudflare hosted task and wiki deployment - https://tajd.github.io/projektor/ - free to host because it's on your infra on cloudflare. Built it because I could, and it was simpler and cheaper than using atlassian etc.
A tool for enforcing code architecture and conventions - https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - these sorts of tools come along every week, but this one is mine and it's v quick to run and extendable.
And then I'm currently working on a game for winning the start of sailing races as that's quite a tactical and fun problem to break down. Will be releasing something there soon!
A CLI/Terminal file deduper.
Moving a lot of files from old laptop to new, lots of duplicate videos in scattered directories with different file names.
Point the CLI tool at a directory and up pops a ncurses application that scans from the directory you specify (recursively), hashes all the files to get groups of dupes, and then ranks the dupes into a table (that looks like top) so you can work your way through the dupes and decide which to keep without your hands leaving the keyboard.
It automatically ignores typical developer directories like node_modules so you're not tortured with noise in the result set.
Hit 'p' and a preview pops up so you can double check they are indeed dupes, if it's a media file the preview window autoplays the dupe videos in tiles with zero volume.
Supports a dry run mode, and switches to cover behaviour like sending dupes to trash rather than hard deletion.
A daily puzzle game called Dozenal that I've been making with a friend. We've been increasing our user base over the past couple of months and are still trying to refine the learning curve.
If you like number puzzle games, I would be very keen for you to give it a go and to hear your feedback on it!
I got tired of all the worthwhile iPhone weightlifting apps wanting a monthly payment for a full feature set, while delivering an uninspiring, cross-platform experience.
I noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such.
Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (SwiftUI/UIKit) and I've gone quite hard on native UI elements such as custom keyboards for plate-loaded exercises and RPE/RIR inputs, native animations, and nice haptic feel. It has no backend servers and no tracking SDKs, yet it still supports things like cross-device sync thanks to Apple's CloudKit. The best part is that it's just a one-time payment.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/plates-weightlifting-log/id675...
Website: https://useplates.com
I spent the last 6 months building Elk Finder (https://elkfinder.com) and just launched a few weeks ago. It's a mapping web app similar to onX Hunt, except I have specific layers for finding ideal elk habitat in September and October (the primary archery and rifle hunting months).
This month has mostly been personal website. Serious warning - style is an HN ripoff atm, forgive me in advance. Will change in the future to something original or minimal.
Migrated my beverages app from notion to an actual webapp my wife and I can use: https://stefanludlow.com/beverages/
Built a bunch of slime mold art: https://stefanludlow.com/art/foraging-network
Project I've got in progress is a migration of the old DIKU mud engine from C to Rust and making a Moog Model D synth recreation in rust with a JS wrapper.
I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleaned-up Markdown) along with a handful of Show HNs.
Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:
https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.
https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
Took a long break earlier this year to recharge, but now I'm back at it again, mostly working on Feedbun, about to launch it as an early alpha. :)
We are creating an AI for science and engineering: https://vicena.ai
It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs to join a CloudLab (and hopefully setting up our own robotic labs), so that AI can actually order real physical experiments that are executed cheaply, efficiently and seamlessly as tool calls.
Through experiments like autoresearch we have seen that AI is already, if not always smarter, at least more systematic than humans at following the scientific method relentlessly (hypothesis-experiment loop). Let's see what we can do by connecting it to the real-world :)
I'm working on a multiplayer stock trading game that was inspired by all my favorite board games. https://www.spellfolio.com/
It's a web-based game for 1-8 players, features a tutorial and bots, plays like a board game, and operates with economy, bluffing, forward-planning, risk-taking, course-correcting mechanics.
Play as an amateur psychic navigating a fictional stock market. Receive premonitions, call in your wizard friend, navigate dividends & earnings releases, and chase the glamorous annual investor awards.
If you try it out, please leave me some feedback :)
My daily word game “Snibble” [0]
It’s basically snake meets scrabble meets PvP stealing. It’s a novel idea and I think it’s cool it hasn’t really been done before :)
The issue is it’s too complicated, the onboarding is dogwater, and the aesthetic is too complex
So I’ve spent the weekend fixing onboarding, fixing and relaxing the visuals mix and simplifying mechanics.
I’ve also tested LLMs playing the game through a harness I wrote. LLMs get smashed, they can form words and steal, but they lose badly to conventional bots.
I’ll be exposing an LLM leaderboard on my next release (hoping this weekend) with links to game replays for the LLMs.
Would love for people to give it a try, give me some feedback, and say what you’d love to see on the roadmap.
[0] - https://snibble.gg/
Just finished working on a new version of customizable Clarity Linux (GTK+) icons.
Created a new website and new icon manager: https://clarity.pl.eu.org
Complite - Elventy template/starter
And a Polish WikiZEIT project:
And ALT - LanguageTool for Emacs
A cliché project, but working on a photo library browser that works in a way that I want it. Technically, the interesting thing is a UI that is reusable across all of my target platforms (desktop, mobile and in-browser with WASM). Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.
I'm working on improving my PCB synthesis system; given a KiCad schematic and some extra metadata it can currently lay out and route an entire double-sided PCB with about 50 components in 4 minutes without any human intervention.
I wrote it because I was too lazy to learn how to use KiCad's layout features properly, and thought 'how hard can it be?'. Several months later, I had this.
It's not intended to compete with Altium etc. but it certainly produces compact, valid and fully design-rule-compliant boards with much less work that doing it myself or using one of the low-cost remote labour platforms.
It uses constraint logic programming to solve the hard parts of the problem. Hierarchical decomposition of the circuit design helps reduce combinatorial explosion, which was a show-stopper for early versions of the system. Current indications are that I may be able to scale it further in the longer term to deal with more complex design scenarios and larger boards, without hitting the exponential cliff.
A dumb vibe-coded GTA III parody set in my city of Glasgow: https://glasgow-brawler.vercel.app/
I'm working on a boring e-commerce site from scratch, with the boring stack of Phoenix Live View, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS. You know, the boring stuffs.
I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.
I'm working on CT RailTime (https://ctrailtime.com), a better way to travel on CTrail. Their current eTix app is essentially broken and the CT government does not seem to care enough to fix it.
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing with them so I built this instead:
My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.
It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.
Working on ZenExpenses. I have been running this personal finance tracker project on my Proxmox for years. Now the time has come for it be released to public. It is a personal finance tracker with simple budgeting. Upload bank statements manually, automatically categorize expenses, set budgets. Nothing exciting but works for my needs. I hope it works for someone out there too.
A self-hosted, better browser interface to preview s3 files. This overcomes the limitation of the s3 console not allowing querying or viewing files beyond a certain size. It also gives you information about the column types. It could be a good use case to present this to non-IT teams in orgs who just want a preview of the data in the files or want to do some simple explorations. Frequently, they are denied access because of the possibility of doing something with confidential data via the s3 console.
I'm building a Twitter (X), Bluesky, Nostr and Mastodon bookmark reminder and manager called https://getbirdfeeder.com. It's a project I've released many years ago but had to shut down during the X API changes. I've now revived it and supported more services.
I have been working on dock bar for Linux
* https://github.com/edumucelli/docking
It has X11 and Wayland support, pre-built packages for all major distributions, almost 60 baked in applets.
For those into Linux and using a dock bar, I am sure you will like it.
Site/course on teaching how to write tests, mostly about frontend tests in React but also just generally things like Vitest/Jest https://howtotestfrontend.com/courses/jest-vitest-fundamenta...
Built AT1C Protocol to make Humans + AI Agents compatible With cryptographic evidence with verified proof "the easiest way to make AI agents EU AI Act compliant, for free, in 15 minutes." https://at1c.com/index.html
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook
It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the changes into entities and sorts based on what has the most dependencies. This tends to put the most important functions first. Plus I can click through the dependencies for each function and mark things as reviewed as I’m reading them. It’s a big improvement over the GitHub review flow for me at least.
Papermill - the document engine for AI. Turn AI content into polished documents using a new document/templating language called Press [1]
It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for document generation. It's designed as a tool for AI agents.
Something cool we've released - an MCP server makes it possible for models like Claude to design fully-featured documents. We use this internally and some of our customers now use it to quickly build new templates.
Just launched self-serve a few weeks ago. Continuing to develop the typesetter and language behind it.
Press is the language, docs are open [2].
Would love any feedback from folks that have worked on document generation, or people with experience doing HTML->PDF.
I'm building a free browser based hub with a variety of apps that I find useful for me.
For now, I have 8 apps and I'd be grateful if any of you could give me your impressions.
I'd be happy too if any of them could be helpful for you.
I continue to write and publish one piece per month. July was a review of Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless, integrated with a recent trip to Dominica:
https://www.metanoia-research.com/review-001-the-power-of-th...
Any thoughts or feedback are welcomed.
3D model construction of climbing gym. There is so much detail a normal climbing video can't show. Wall angle, hip position. I'm hoping to overlay human model, taken from climbing video, onto the 3D wall to make climbing visualization easier.
I am working on this Review Flow. An extention for Cursor / VScode to enable IDE as first class for code reviews.
It came from a frustration that I needed to switch between the browser and the IDE to navigate through the code and leaving comments on Gitlab at the company.
So I thought it could useful to create something and let it be accessible to the public as open source.
link: https://github.com/LuyandaLia/reviewflow
In a nutshell, it accepts draft comments, which can be modified and submitted.
It auto configs the env for Python as it uses FastAPI for calls to Gitlab.
It's my initial attempt. Suggestions, reviews, contributions are invited.
One love
Spent nights over the last six months combining AI coding agents with containers, spec-driven development, and formal verification, so that I (eventually) don't have to manually review 10k+ lines of AI code a day, or worry about the latest model wiping out my home directory:
https://www.overplane.dev/ (Apache-2.0)
Working on https://metner.app to give micro-preneurs (people with side-hustles) a dedicated web presence to grow businesses focused on local communities.
Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.
Launched a suite of media inspection and encoding tools a few months ago, based on FFmpeg. Slowly getting more customers.
Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
Working on a no-code tool to make it easier to self host fully compliant databases with an audit first approach.
Startups should be able to deploy their own SOC2 compliance ready databases without paying cloud providers to do the deployment for them.
Why pay $1050/month on AWS RDS when a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources?
I am building a device that turns the headless Echelon exercise bikes (and rowers?) into fully featured bikes without using their predatory app.
If interesting in receiving a beta testing unit, let me know!
I built a kind of paas for llms, the idea was to allow my family deploy webs cheap and easy, my family doesn't use It, but It end being very useful form mento deploy small apps. You can check It out on https://onvibe.run there is a list of forkable apps that I use.
I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).
I'm working on dotUI. A framework for developing UI's where the core logic such as routing, events, state management is defined by the user and the llm handles the styling. This way every user can have their own UI's without losing functionality. Will post here regarding it in the coming weeks
A electronic workbook/task generator app for korean learning with AI or human feedback (although for now you have to find the humans yourself).
I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.
Now that I made it this far, I had to realize though that it is far from what I had imagined and needs much more work.
Working on project-hami.io, but recently decided that all the new markdown based presentation tools have far too much HTML dependency, so I decided to build my own, with custom extensions and plugins. It's supposed to support some basic structures that allow easy creation of presentations, but the editable odp conversion is proving to be a nightmare. It should be possible, but I need help.
MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/): a software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's going quite well so far with growing MRR each month.
Lately, I've been trying to focus more on marketing, and sales. I might try ads soon as well.
https://cheapcloudstorage.eu - SSH-based cloud storage for long-term off-site backups.
I'm working on a collection of networked games, around the central theme of a lockstep deterministic network model with 'delay frames' (between acting directly on user input and progressing actual shared network state).
You can try this here: https://locksteparcade.com/Client
Games included in the arcade, currently:
- Neon Swarm, a take on the classic lemmings game, with multiplayer versus and coop modes
- Serpents, a snake game (where you eat food, grow a tail and need to avoid this growing tail), with inertial movement and multiplayer
- Spirits, an homage to N++, where you work together to get someone to the exit, while avoiding enemies, figuring out how to open doors, and so on
- Pilots, a multiplayer asteroids battle with homing missiles
Each game solves the network delay problem (the problem of providing immediate feedback to user input and hiding the fact that actual changes to shared state are delayed) differently, and it has been very interesting to work through a bunch of different approaches to this.
If anyone else here is working on multiplayer network games, I'm very interested in setting up a regular "play each other's games" session.
The idea is that regularly playing with other game developers will help develop a kind of 'scene' (where you get a group of people together who make work in public but really aimed at each other, pushing and unblocking one another to become bolder and better at an accelerating rate, as described here: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scene-creation-engines ).
If you are interested, let me know!
A focused and functional service for event hosts to collect guest photos through a shared link/QR code that leads to an upload page. Think photo gathering for weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate events, big birthdays, etc.
There are many of these out there, but I found most unintuitive ("too complicated for Grandma"), too featureful, and/or much too expensive.
I’ve been continuing work on https://mybulkcards.com, a phone app and website for scanning, organizing, and searching Pokémon card collections, especially the thousands of bulk cards that my daughter and I have in our closet from playing.
The goal hasn't changed too much, make building decks easier by knowing exactly what you own and where it’s stored. You organize cards into boxes, search your inventory, search friends’ collections, and keep track of trades instead of digging through a similar closet of cards that my daughter and I search for.
The fun part has been the AI. I trained computer vision models that run entirely on the phone to detect and identify Pokémon cards. Training has become the slowest part. For the model that needs to be retrained every new release, I’m up to about 5 hours per epoch on my M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM.
The Android app is currently in public testing with people from my local Pokémon league. It’s built with React Native, and I’m working on the iPhone version next.
Still lots to build, mostly around product and ux, and because a recent stupid mistake on my part, backups and deployment safeguards.
I recently started working on SnapSense, a macOS app that OCRs your screenshots and uses a local LLM to auto-rename them into something readable.
https://github.com/Enigma-52/SnapSense
This was solely built after opening the wrong 'Screenshot 2026-06-03 at 6.09.28 PM.png' for the 4th time :|
I'm working on a collaborative post-apocalyptic fitness RPG. I wanted to build a game that lets you take over the real world, gets you off the couch, and has only positive multiplayer engagement. If you find or invite another player nearby, all your actions with them benefit you both.
It's for iPhone, and for the best experience, Apple Watch. It's very early, playable via TestFlight, and I would love feedback! There's a TestFlight link at: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co
I'm working on improving my Indiekit https://getindiekit.com (not mine, just a big fan & heavy user, to which I created plugins : https://rmendes.net/changelog/ and also working on a local Ai-stack deployment so that I can put that DGX Spark for a good use !
A Remote Desktop tool for Mac and Windows https://forge.emrul.dev/agents/portal-desktop/releases
Still a few weeks away from getting everything working but it’s functional already and I have a half dozen regular users who’re my beta testers :)